#Art

Stone related books for Christmas

Stone related books make great presents for your stone mad friends. Here are a few stone related books I recommend checking out if you...

The Timekeeper

Earlier in the year I was commissioned under the Per Cent for Art scheme to create a sculpture for a secondary school in Drogheda Co....

Can tradespeople be artists? Lets ask Johnny Clasper.

Can tradespeople be artists? An interesting question which is being explored by a new Irish series on TG4 at the moment called...

Happy New Year and reflecting back on 2012

Happy New Year everyone. I feel the need to write a new blog post as I have been neglecting to do so over the past six months or...

Turning old instruments into art!

So this is a post that will strike different ‘chords’ with different people. For some this is art, but others may see this as decimation...

Once upon a fairytale garden

So it is a new year, and for many people 2012 is looking pretty bleak indeed. That is why I am re-posting this old post I did last...

Making a mosaic

Here is a picture of a project I recently finished for an artist in West Cork. The mosaic in the center was actually a bit of an...

This year for National Tree Week, why not let the trees do some art!!!

So it’s National Tree Week again here in Ireland! Last year in my post Grow our own chairs for national tree week, I instructed ye all to...

Artist Liu Bolin’s disappearance into the landscape.

Came across this amazing guy the other day. 37-year-old artist Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China camouflages himself into the environment....

The Plant Kingdom, a source for inspiration for sculptor Ruth Moilliet

The plant kingdom is a source of inspiration for all plant and garden lovers, and for UK artist Ruth Moilliet this is also very much the...

Art inspired landscape art. Sculptures by J. Seward Johnson

Between work, the fantastic summer were having so far and of course the world cup, I have had very little time for blogging in resent...

Grow our own chairs for national tree week

1987 Peter Cook As it is national tree week here in Ireland (7-13 March) at the moment, I thought a tree related post would be...

Garden Labyrinth

This seven circuit classical hedge labyrinth with enlarged centre, was designed and constructed by my dad, Fred Wieler in the beautiful...

The Shell House at Ballymaloe Cookery School

Ballymaloe house and gardens are nestled in a 400 acre estate that dates back to the early 1800’s in the rural setting of Shanagarry,...

Living Willow Structures

I am currently looking into organising a weekend workshop in live willow structures in West Cork, which has inspired me to write a post...

Stone art in its most gigantic of scales. The Crazy Horse Memorial

Here is some stone art in its most gigantic of scales. I recently saw this monumental piece of stone art on the telly and was very...